On 11/10/13 23:02, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 10/11/13 7:46 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
It's not so much that we expect it, as that we might expect that
standard library types would _have the appropriate design work put in_
so that they would "just work" with these qualifiers. (Admittedly
shared is a bit of a special case right now that probably needs more
work before support is rolled out.)
If you tell me that's an unreasonable expectation then fair enough, but
it feels pretty bad if e.g. library-implemented number types (big
integers or floats, rationals, complex numbers, ...) can't from a user
perspective behave exactly like their built-in counterparts.
I think that's reasonable.
Good :-)
It's probably clear from discussion that I don't have a sufficient theoretical
overview to immediately address what needs to be done here without help, but if
anyone is willing to provide some guidance and instruction, I'm happy to try and
do the legwork on std.bigint to bring it up to speed in this respect.
